On March 8, the ever impressive Whitechapel, London’s 100-year-old gallery space, came together with Hogan, the luxury-leather-goods company, to host the Art Plus Drama Party, a fund-raiser for Whitechapel’s education program. With performances by a bevy of British thespians, including Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, and Martine McCutcheon, the event was a dramatic staging of scenes and monologues by artists such as Jenny Holzer and Ed Ruscha, with the gallery’s collection of contemporary art serving as a progressive backdrop. Sotheby’s was on hand to conduct an auction of original artworks, as well as scripts from the evening’s performances; the most coveted item was Ed Ruscha’s signed script, which fetched £8,000. By the end of the night, the event had generated £124,000 for the Whitechapel charity, which provides educational help to more than 3,000 underprivileged children throughout Europe.